Ballot measure asks: Is California death penalty worth the cost?

28 January 2012, 11:30 pm

Death penalty critics who for years focused on moral arguments are making a pocketbook appeal to voters: Their ballot measure to abolish the death penalty focuses on the costs to taxpayers to execute a prisoner. They say they have collected enough signatures to get it on the Nov. 6 ballot.... Read More »

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